After anemic games of 75 and 78 points,
respectively, to open their campaign in the PBA Governor’s Cup, the Alaska Aces
finally hit pay dirt in their offensive game as they scored more than a
hundred points for the first time in a 107-102 victory over the B-MEG Derby Ace Llamados last
night at the Big Dome. It was the Aces first win in three games in the
season-ending conference. A quick start has been the perennial problem for Alaska this conference
and it seems like they are on their way for another rough night when the Aces fell
behind early to the Llamados, 8-0. But a 13-2 blast by the Aces put them into
the groove of things as they grabbed the upper hand at 13-10. Alaska import Jason Forte played a monster
game with 29 points and 12 rebounds. Aces head coach Tim Cone was all-praised
to his prize import’s over-all performance, which he says is comparable to the
game of the franchise legendary import Sean Chambers, according to the Aces official website.
“Jason did a tremendous for us
tonight. He made things difficult for Joe on defense and contributed in other
aspects of the game. Jason is so big, so quick and so strong that he helps us
in so many other ways than just score. He defends the other team`s best post
scorer. He rebounds. He gets everyone involved in offense. He`s a lot like Sean
Chambers because he does so many things well for the teamt like Sean Chambers
because he does so many things well for the team.
“Obviously we made a lot of adjustments. We decided to go small starting
Jason at the four rather than going big. He (Forte) has the advantage at that
position because he`s so quick. This allowed us to play three small guards in
LA (Tenorio), Cyrus (Baguio)
and Bonbon (Custodio) a lot of times.”
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